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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Gainesville, FL ranks #275 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 433 patents from 281 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Gainesville, FL include Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited, Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Bongiovi Acoustic. That works out to 3.1 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 281 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Scott E. Thompson Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited 12
2 Grayson M. Clark Florida Foundation Seed Producers 9
2 Glenn Zelniker Bongiovi Acoustic 9
2 David G. Clark Florida Foundation Seed Producers 9
2 Gideon Shapiro Epizyme 9
#6 Shravan Gaonkar Netapp 7
#7 William W. Gregory Smith & Nephew 6
#7 Manjunath Anandarama Krishnam Qualcomm 6
#9 Tien-Yu Huang TSMC 5
#9 Subrata Roy University of Florida 5
#11 Gary L. Simonds Mcp Ip 4
#11 Roy Curtiss, III Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 4
#11 Stephen John Pearton University of Florida 4
#11 Steven Albert Benner Eragen Biosciences 4
#11 Neil R. Euliano Etectrx 4
#11 Gary Dean Ragner Ragner Technology 4
#11 Fan Ren University of Florida 4
#18 G. Martin Wynkoop Orthohelix Surgical Designs 3
#18 Wallace Gregory Sawyer University of Florida 3
#18 Chang-Yu Wu University of Florida 3
#18 Warren Dixon University of Florida 3
#18 Jose C. Principe University of Florida 3
#18 Brij M. Moudgil University of Florida 3
#18 Arul Chakkaravarthi Arjunan University of Florida 3
#18 Vijay Krishna University of Florida 3
#18 Feng Huang Koniniklijke Philips N.V. 3
#18 David A. Ostrov University of Florida 3
#18 Sukwon Hong Globalfoundries 3
#18 Yanhua Deng L-3 Communications 3
#18 Wei Lin Delta Electronics 3
#18 Josef Neu University of Florida 3
#32 Scott Jantz Opentv 2
#32 Philip G. Koehler University of Florida 2
#32 Huabei Jiang University of Florida 2
#32 Jeffrey J. Keaffaber University of Florida 2
#32 Gwendolyn L. Daniels 2
#32 Brian Barnard Exactech 2
#32 Ernie Torres Clairson 2
#32 Daniel Talham CNRS 2
#32 Jeff Lloyd Arvinmeritor Technology 2
#32 William R. Kem University of Florida Foundation 2
#32 Garrett William Gleim Gleim Conferencing 2
#32 Keelnatham T. Shanmugam University of Florida 2
#32 Jipin Zhong Novabone Products 2
#32 Tanmay Lele University of Florida 2
#32 Chandrasekaran Nataraj Rti Surgical 2
#32 Guanghua Yan Sunshine Lake Pharma Co. 2
#32 Zheng Zheng Beihang University 2
#32 Richard J. Melker University of Florida 2
#32 Sanjeev Hingorani Lennox Industries 2

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